CURRICULUM VITAE
ACADEMIC POSITIONS / EDUCATION
| Yale University | Assistant Professor of Psychology | 2013 – |
| Vanderbilt University | Post-Doctoral Fellow Mentor: David Zald | 2010 - 2013 |
| Stanford University | Ph.D. in Psychology Dissertation: Incentive processing in the aging brain Advisors: Brian Knutson & Laura Carstensen | 2005 – 2010 |
| Stanford University | M.A. in Psychology (Affective Science) | 2005 – 2008 |
| Stanford University | Post-Baccalaureate Research Assistant / Lab Manager Life-span Development Lab, Department of Psychology | 2002 – 2005 |
| University of Michigan | B.A. in Psychology with Honors Thesis: Physiology of emotional maintenance Advisors: Barbara Fredrickson & Patricia Reuter-Lorenz | 1998 – 2002 |
AWARDS / HONORS
| NIH Pathway to Independence Award | National Institute on Aging | 2012 - 2017 |
| Post-Doctoral Fellows Award | Cognitive Neuroscience Society | 2012 |
| NIH Post-Doctoral NRSA Fellowship | National Institute on Aging | 2011 - 2012 |
| Distinguished Dissertation Award in Social Sciences | Council of Graduate Schools / UMI | 2010 |
| Adult Development and Aging Dissertation Award | APA Division 20 | 2010 |
| Albert H. & Barbara R. Hastorf Prize for Teaching | Stanford University | 2010 |
| NIH Pre-Doctoral NRSA Fellowship | National Institute on Aging | 2008 – 2010 |
| Department of Psychology Teaching Award | Stanford University | 2008 |
| NIA Top 10 Scientific Advances of 2007 | National Institute on Aging | 2007 |
| Graduate Research Fellowship, Honorable Mention | National Science Foundation | 2006 |
| Summer School in Neuroeconomics Fellowship | NSF / NIA | 2006 |
| W. B. Pillsbury Prize for Undergraduate Research | University of Michigan | 2002 |
| University Honors | University of Michigan | 2002 |
| Psi Chi Psychology Honors Society Member | University of Michigan | 2001 |
| Branstrom Prize for Freshman Scholars (Top 10% of class) | University of Michigan | 1999 |
GRANTS
| Neuromodulation of Motivated Cognition and Decision Making Across Adulthood
NIA / NIH (K99 AG042596) | PI | 2012 - 2014 |
| Individual Differences in Susceptibility to Investment Fraud FINRA Investor Education Foundation | Co-Investigator (PI: Knutson) | 2011 - 2013 |
| Research Network on Decision Neuroscience and Aging NIA / NIH (R24 AG039350) | Co-Director (PI: Carstensen) | 2010 - 2015 |
| Imaging the Human Reward System Across the Adult Life Span NIA / NIH (F32 AG039131) | PI | 2011 - 2012 |
| Incentive Learning and Decision Making in the Aging Brain NIA / NIH (F31 AG032804) | PI | 2008 - 2010 |
PUBLICATIONS
Samanez-Larkin, G.R., Knutson, B. (forthcoming, 2014) Reward processing and risky decision making in the aging brain. In V. Reyna & V. Zayas (Eds.) The Neuroscience of Risky Decision Making. Washington DC: American Psychological Association. pdf
Hills, T.T., Mata, R., Wilke, A., Samanez-Larkin, G.R. (2013) Mechanisms of age-related decline in memory search across the adult life span. Developmental Psychology. EPub ahead of print.
Samanez-Larkin, G.R., Buckholtz, J.W., Cowan, R.L., Woodward, N.D., Li, R., Ansari, M.S., Arrington, C.M., Baldwin, R.M., Smith, C.E., Treadway, M.T., Kessler, R.M., Zald, D.H. (2013) A thalamocorticostriatal dopamine network for psychostimulant-enhanced human cognitive flexibility. Biological Psychiatry. EPub ahead of print. pdf sup
Garrett, D.D., Samanez-Larkin, G.R., MacDonald, S.W.S., Lindenberger, U., McIntosh, A.R., Grady, C.L. (2013) Moment-to-moment brain signal variability: A next frontier in human brain mapping? Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 37(4), 610-624. pdf
Kuhnen, C.M., Samanez-Larkin, G.R., Knutson, B. (2013) Serotonergic genotypes, neuroticism, and financial choices. PLoS ONE, 8(1), e54632. link
Samanez-Larkin, G.R., Levens, S.M., Perry, L.M., Dougherty, R.F., Knutson, B. (2012) Frontostriatal white matter integrity mediates adult age differences in probabilistic reward learning. Journal of Neuroscience, 32(15), 5333–5337. pdf
Knutson, B., Samanez-Larkin, G.R. (2012) Brain, decision, and debt. In R. Brubaker, R. M. Lawless, & C. J. Tabb (Eds.) A Debtor World: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Debt (pp. 167–180). New York: Oxford University Press. pdf
Mata, R, Josef, A.K., Samanez-Larkin, G.R., Hertwig, R. (2011) Age differences in risky choice: A meta-analysis. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1235(1), 18–29. pdf sup
Samanez-Larkin, G.R., Mata, R., Radu, P.T., Ballard, I.C., Carstensen, L.L., McClure, S.M. (2011) Age differences in striatal delay sensitivity during intertemporal choice in healthy adults. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 5, 126. link
Knutson, B., Samanez-Larkin, G.R., Kuhnen, C.M. (2011) Gain and loss learning differentially contribute to life financial outcomes. PLoS ONE, 6(9), e24390. link
Samanez-Larkin, G.R., Carstensen, L.L. (2011) Socioemotional functioning and the aging brain. In J. Decety & J.T. Cacioppo (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Social Neuroscience (pp. 507–521). New York: Oxford University Press. pdf
Samanez-Larkin, G.R., Wagner, A.D., Knutson, B. (2011) Expected value information improves financial risk taking across the adult life span. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 6(2), 207–217. pdf sup
Carstensen, L.L., Turan, B., Scheibe, S., Ram, N., Ersner-Hershfield, H., Samanez-Larkin, G.R., Brooks, K.P., Nesselroade, J.R. (2011) Emotional experience improves with age: Evidence based on over 10 years of experience sampling. Psychology and Aging, 26(1), 21-33. pdf
Samanez-Larkin, G.R., Kuhnen, C.M., Yoo, D.J., Knutson, B. (2010) Variability in nucleus accumbens activity mediates age-related suboptimal financial risk taking. Journal of Neuroscience, 30(4), 1426–1434. pdf sup cover comment
Kwon, Y., Scheibe, S., Samanez-Larkin, G.R., Tsai, J.L., Carstensen, L.L. (2009) Replicating the positivity effect in picture memory in Koreans: Evidence for cross-cultural generalizability. Psychology and Aging, 24(3), 748–754. pdf
Samanez-Larkin, G.R., Robertson, E.R., Mikels, J.A., Carstensen, L.L., Gotlib, I.H. (2009) Selective attention to emotion in the aging brain. Psychology and Aging, 24(3), 519–529. pdf
Ersner-Hershfield, H., Garton, M.T., Ballard, K., Samanez-Larkin, G.R., Knutson, K. (2009) Don’t stop thinking about tomorrow: Individual differences in future self-continuity account for saving. Judgment and Decision Making, 4(4), 280–286. pdf
Samanez-Larkin, G.R., D’Esposito, M. (2008) Group comparisons: Imaging the aging brain. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 3(3), 290–297. pdf
Samanez-Larkin, G.R., Hollon, N.G., Carstensen, L.L., Knutson, B. (2008) Individual differences in insular sensitivity during loss anticipation predict avoidance learning. Psychological Science, 19(4), 320–323. pdf
Samanez-Larkin, G.R., Gibbs, S.E.B., Khanna, K., Nielsen, L., Carstensen, L.L., Knutson, B. (2007) Anticipation of monetary gain but not loss in healthy older adults. Nature Neuroscience, 10(6), 787–791. pdf sup
Mikels, J.A., Larkin, G.R., Reuter-Lorenz, P.A., Carstensen, L.L. (2005) Divergent trajectories in the aging mind: Changes in working memory for affective versus visual information with age. Psychology and Aging, 20(4), 542–553. pdf
Mikels, J.A., Fredrickson, B.L., Larkin, G.R., Lindberg, C.M., Maglio, S.J., Reuter-Lorenz, P.A. (2005). Emotional category data on images from the International Affective Picture System. Behavior Research Methods, 37(4), 626–630. pdf
Fredrickson, B.L., Tugade, M.M., Waugh, C.E., Larkin, G.R. (2003) What good are positive emotions in crises?: A prospective study of resilience and emotions following the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11th, 2001. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 84, 365–376. pdf
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EDITED BOOK
Decision Making Over the Life Span (2011) G.R. Samanez-Larkin (Ed.). New York: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.
INVITED TALKS
2013
Department of Psychology, University of California Los Angeles
Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California
2012
Department of Psychology, Yale University
Institute on Aging & McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida
Center for Cognitive Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
2011
Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
2010
Council of Graduate Schools Annual Meeting, Washington, DC
Center for Advanced Brain Imaging, Georgia Tech / Georgia State
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND ACTIVITIES
Workshops/Meetings/Conference Talks
2013 Psychological Science and Behavioral Economics in the Service of Public Policy, Washington DC
2013 Mechanisms of Motivation Cognition and Aging Interactions, Washington DC
2011 The Neuroscience of Risky Decision Making, Ithaca, NY (discussant)
2010 NIA Workshop on Economic Phenotypes, Evanston, IL
2010 Cognitive Ability in Aging Conference, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
2009 NIA Preconference on Neuroeconomics and Aging, Evanston, IL
2008 NIA Workshop on Opportunities for Advancing Research on Aging, Chicago, IL
2006 Mind the Gap!: Behavioral Perspectives on Medicare Part D, Berkeley, CA
2006 NIA Workshop on Neuroeconomics and Aging, Palo Alto, CA
Service
2008-2010 Department of Psychology Human Subjects Committee, Stanford University
2006 Department of Psychology Graduate Admissions, Stanford University
Guest Editor
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
Frontiers in Neuroscience (Research Topic on Decision Making Across the Life Span)
Ad-Hoc Reviewer
Aging Neuropsychology and Cognition; Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences; Behavioural Brain Research; Behavioral Neuroscience; Biological Psychiatry; Brain Research; Cerebral Cortex; Cognition and Emotion; Cognitive Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience; Developmental Psychology; Emotion; Frontiers in Neuroscience; Human Brain Mapping; Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience; Journal of Neuroscience; Neurobiology of Aging; NeuroImage; Neuropsychologia; Neuropsychology; PLoS ONE; Psychological Science; Psychology and Aging; Review of Finance; Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
Grant Reviewer
National Science Foundation
Member
Cognitive Neuroscience Society
Society for Neuroeconomics
Society for Neuroscience
Society for Judgment and Decision Making
Association for Psychological Science
American Psychological Association, Division 20 (Adult Development & Aging)
Gerontological Society of America